词汇 | absence makes the heart grow fonder |
词源 | absence makes the heart grow fonder; out of sight, out of mind. Whether you believe the first proverb or the contra- dictory saying out of sight, out of mind, the phrase does not come from the poem “Isle of Beauty” by Thomas Haynes Bayly (1797–1839), as Dr. Brewer, Bartlett, and other sources say. Bayly did write “Absence makes the heart grow fonder,/Isle of Beauty, Fare thee well!,” but the same phrase was recorded in Francis Davison’s “Poetical Rapsody” in 1602. Out of sight, out of mind comes from the poem “That Out of Sight” by Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–61): That out of sight is out of mind Is true of most we leave behind. |
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